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The name that got away - Old Canberry

Ian Warden One hundred years ago this week, there was continuing debate about what the name Canberra meant.

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Family gives red carpet the treatment

Ian Warden Gang Gang: Imagine yourselves in 1927 and in the shoes of the Banvill family of Maryborough, Queensland.

A skywhale? You have a right to be disappointed

Ian Warden Darth Vader (the hot-air balloon) was always going to be a hard act to follow and now Patricia Piccinini's Skywhale hot-air balloon must try to follow that act.

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Space for politics

Ian Warden Some of the fanciful ideas for Parliament House designs that were floating around in the early 1970s looked as if they might literally be able to float, through the air, because they were a little...

Our modest Parliament turns 25 today

Ian Warden Twenty-five years ago today Her Majesty the Queen officially opened Its Majesty, the new and permanent Parliament House of the Commonwealth of Australia.

Triangular coins minted to mark the birthday of Parly House

Ian Warden They won’t work in poker machines or parking meters (where round coins rule) but the Royal Australian Mint has created Australia’s first triangular coin to mark the 25th birthday of Australian...

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Artist blends weird with wonder

Ian Warden And so to The Welcome Guest. What on earth is this ''guest''? Is it from a galaxy far away or from some unexplored forest or swamp of our own?

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Artist keeps mum on lofty theme

Ian Warden Look heavenwards on Monday morning, Canberrans, because this a mystery juggernaut is set to be launched.

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Saddled with doggerel, but at least it can't get any verse

Ian Warden Charles Lachlan McKeahnie is not the hero from Snowy River, but famous nonetheless.

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Not everyone loves a memento

Ian Warden How a medallion threw some Canberrans into a rage.

Puckering-up Psittacines

Ian Warden Four Australian wood ducks looked on in envy on Thursday, from the banks of a North Watson storm water pond, at the official unveiling of a flattering sculpture of another bird species, the Galah.

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Archer and her big adventures

Ian Warden The most interesting-looking car present for Wednesday's breeze-buffeted Centenary of Canberra Rally launch was a 1959 Tatra.

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Bridge is ace way to exercise brain

Ian Warden Canberra Bridge Club is raising money to support research into the early diagnosis of dementia.

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Student block ripe for repair

Ian Warden Known as the bachelor's quarters for ANU students, I Block of the Lennox House complex, sits deserted, riddled with termites.

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Honor's memorial vision

Ian Warden Memorial for the sacrifice and service of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders a well-kept secret.

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Surveyor Scrivener prone to scribbling river rhymes

Ian Warden Words of wisdom from Charles Robert Scrivener, the surveyor who sited Australia's national capital twice.

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Fresh face to local art

Ian Warden Barbara van der Linden's Faces of Canberra project has been fresh and revolutionary.

It's the Kelly gang revival

Ian Warden W hat if, through some miraculous time warp, Ned Kelly and his fun-loving gang were to gallop into today's Canberra? Alive today, and with their famous appetite for travel and for sightseeing, they'd...